Sam Lusk fatally injured in auto accident on July 5 in Idaho
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Clayton House Now Open to the Public
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CLF Member Section
Find "Member Login" in the upper right hand portion of this page.  Every member has a Username and Password enabling you to see articles of interest to researchers. Also found here is the current newsletter, "From Trevia's [Trevia Wooster Beverly] Notebook" and the May and June New Books. 

2009 CONFEDERATE PENSION APPLICATION PURCHASES
  
Six more states have been added to the Confederate Pension Application holdings at Clayton Library, Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina Tennessee and Florida.
 
Prior to this year, CLF purchased the Confederate applications from Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and Oklahoma. Alabama Department of Archives and History has a card index found at http://www.archives.state.al.us/civilwar/index.cfm which seems to be an index to the Alabama rolls. There is also a collection from Missouri entitled “Applications for Confederate Home and Pensions” which contain original applications.

FOR HISTORICAL RENOVATION OF CLAYTON HOUSE

Clayton Library Friends is honored to announce that our recent renovation project of the Clayton Library complex, was awarded the Houston Business Journal’s prestigious Landmark Award 2009 for Historical Renovation.  The award was accepted by Charlie Gardes, Project Manager on behalf of the Clayton Library Friends.  Over 600 local commercial real estate representatives were in attendance at the ceremony, which was held at the InterContinental Hotel on April 8th. Clayton Library was also nominated for an award for efforts in Public/Private Partnership.